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Any Major Dude
| Fanfiction | |
|---|---|
| Title: | Any Major Dude |
| Author(s): | Melanie Rawn |
| Date(s): | 1980 |
| Length: | |
| Genre(s): | gen |
| Fandom(s): | Starsky & Hutch |
| Relationship(s): | |
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Any Major Dude is a gen Huggy Bear-centric story by Melanie Rawn.
It was printed in The Pits #2.
The title comes from a 1974 Steely Dan song, "Any Major Dude Will Tell You."
Reactions and Reviews
‘Any Major Dude’… as is all of Melanie’s work, is technically excellent: the prose is lucid and fluent, the plot coherent, the viewpoint consistent and focused for maximum illumination of character... I am going to say loudly, categorically and with all the authoritarianism of which Scorpio is capable, that there is nothing in this story that is inconsistent with the aired series. Nothing. The reader who is convinced otherwise, and possibly outraged, needs to re-examine her own assumptions. It is the purpose of fiction to lead the reader toward truth, not away from it; not to allow escape but to prohibit it. If the experience is occasionally unsettling, that's how it should be. If (to crib from Spider Robinson), you believe that the separation between the varieties of human love is a barbed-wire border; that the sex of the person you sleep with determines your moral and ethical status and general fitness as a human being; if you cannot accept the worth of a character whom you cannot vicariously seduce; then this story will probably offend, disgust or seriously threaten you. In other words, you should read it, too. If you're lucky, it'll tell you something about yourself. [1]
‘Any Major Dude’ is excellent, and the best-handling of Huggy that I’ve seen since ‘Can’t Go Home.’ The speech is right, the scenes are real – the reference to Starsky’s Deep Dark Past that was something that should not have been thrown at a reader unless the author intended to explain, but that’s my only objection. [2]
I liked ‘Any Major Dude.’ About time we see this universe from some other viewpoint other than that of Damon and Pythias, and about time S&H start earning their psychic pay as outstanding good guys. Melanie made us see why the pair gets things done; they keep coming back and bugging their contact, just like real cops. More, the characterization of Huggy is full-bodied, real, and a subtle delight. Huggy is guarded on his first meeting with S&H – and on his second and third and fourth meetings, too. There is no way a ghetto-raised black man who eased himself out with every trick and scam and bluff on the counter would listen to sweet reason from two great hulking WHITE cops. Unless he had to… There is one clinker. Within the context of the story, Starsky’s going ape-shit and stomping Moss for no discernible reason – and no further reference later – is bad writing… As a further difficultly, it shows Huggy that he’s dealing with a vengeful maniac who can’t control himself sometimes… This hobbles the story. [3]